The Dinosaur in the Room is Climate Change

The stage is now populated by Trump’s insane tariff scheme. Its advocates proclaim grand consequences, while Democrats yammer about adopting populist economics and finding a leader. In the back row of the theater two old Greenies, thus far silent, rise to point out the madness of ignoring climate change.

Trump on Climate Change

It’s possible that Trump doesn’t actually know what climate change is Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source If we had better criteria for impeachment, the president’s remarks on climate would form Article One. Yet, after pulling the U.S. out of the …

Hansen’s Recent Thoughts on Climate Change—and Some History

Saving Earth (June 27, 2019) Thirty years later, what needs to change in our approach to climate change (June 26, 2018) Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (August 1, 2018) Once one of the few scientific voices crying out about climate change, James Hansen has become a renowned, and sometimes vilified, spokesman. …

Seven Minutes (out of two hours) on Climate Change

The First Democratic Debate Failed The Planet The Debates Will Be about Climate—Disguised as Other Issues The Energy 202: Seven minutes were devoted to climate change in the first Democratic debate Last night’s first Democratic debate was just more of the same as it reflected a deliberate disregard of climate on the part of moderators …

Climate Amnesia: How We Misperceive Chaos and Change

The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19)  Proving the ‘shifting baselines’ theory: how humans consistently misperceive nature David Roberts opens his impressive Vox piece this way: We lost 2,800 souls to Covid just last Thursday, more than died on 9/11. Instead of jumping to respond to “an unbearable collective national tragedy,” we adjust mentally …